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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Tombstone Tuesday: Old Goss Cemetery south of Harveyville, PA Continued

Some how you probably know that this makes me very sad and helpless because my family is buried there and the areas history is buried there. Unfortunately the Susquehanna River flooded a few years back and Shickshinny was almost destroyed. This means that the residents are preoccupied with rebuilding.

Here are some more overview photos you can see the height of the bushes, some tombstones peeking out and if you look at the middle one you can see that is goes further down the little hill I had climbed to from the gate back under the trees. There was a chain link fence along the sides and back of this cemetery. I did not venture too far from the top of the hill. If you can find the gate you can find the cemetery.

Here are some stones I was able to photograph:

Titus Seward, his father Enos married Sarah Goss Born 9 July 1783 died 24 Apr 1851

This has a newer plaque beneath it - John Dodson

To the south, they may let you park? Ask nicely. The cemetery is to the right of this picture near the road.

Thomas Dodson

Robert Wilson.....

Solomon Bonham

Sophie B daughter of Stephen

You see the little US Flags here and there so someone does come to visit on occasion.

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The header photo is of the Lee Cemetery in Hardin Co., Ohio southeast of Kenton, Ohio.

As of today 8/12/2016 Google has closed down Picasa for Photos. They moved them to Google Photos and Google Photo Archive. If there are any problem with my photos from this blog give me a holler and I will check it out. When posting in Blogger the photos went into Picasa for safekeeping it doesn't work that way at Wordpress. I did not move BJM Cemeteries to Wordpress so this is why I am concerned. So far so Good. Thanks. Let me know if there is a problem with any of the photos. Thanks.

As a member of Find A Grave I have been adding photos and memorials and getting some transferred to me and trying to spend a couple hours each week adding to the website. Scroll to the bottom of this blog and you will find a link to my contributions on Find A Grave.

Here are my tips:

I find Find A Grave is really good for finding tombstones and memorials for those buried in the USA. Canada is making progress in adding to Find A Grave but you also have to go to other websites in your search. These websites are the Canadian Headstones.com, OCFA - Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, the Canadian Gen Webs Cemetery project are few places to look. Each province may have a way to locate cemeteries. Hopefully I have identified these websites in my posts but be aware they do change their urls.